Cycles of Violence

The phrase “cycles of violence” refers to a widely accepted theoretical explanation and description of how interpersonal violence in a relationship does not just suddenly appear or disappear, but rather has a common identifiable repeating pattern or cycle. The typical cycle of violence can be thought of as having four identifiable stages, namely, honeymoon, tension, violence, and crisis, which proceed from one to the next in a cycle that often repeats itself, perhaps escalating in intensity until it is disrupted (if at all). The cycle of violence often transforms the victim into an aggressor themselves, thus adding a possible intergenerational dimension to what then becomes a never‐ending cycle of violence.

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